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Khavn De La Cruz, is a prolific Filipino filmmaker, writer, pianist, songwriter and composer. Since 1994 he has directed over 300 films including Squatterpunk (2006), Manila in the Fangs of Darkness (2008) and has collaborated with Alexander Kluge on films such as Orphea (2020) and Happy Lamento (2018), making him one of the most productive filmmakers in the Philippines and beyond. From 2002 to 2011, he was the festival director and programmer for Mov International Film, Music and Literature Festival. He has been a jury member at multiple festivals including the Berlinale and Leipzig Film Festival.
He has exhibited at the MoMA, Maxxi, Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Museo Reina Sofia, National Museum of Singapore, and Venice Architecture Biennale; lectured at the Berlinale Talent Campus, Bela Tarr's Film Factory, Goethe Institute, the Danish Film Institute, and his alma mater, the Ateneo; and curated programmes for the Viennale, the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Sharjah Biennial. Selected retrospectives of...
He has exhibited at the MoMA, Maxxi, Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Museo Reina Sofia, National Museum of Singapore, and Venice Architecture Biennale; lectured at the Berlinale Talent Campus, Bela Tarr's Film Factory, Goethe Institute, the Danish Film Institute, and his alma mater, the Ateneo; and curated programmes for the Viennale, the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Sharjah Biennial. Selected retrospectives of...
- 6/22/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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Expanding on the homonymous short, “Greaseman” presents the comments of the original much more eloquently while adding more, through a presentation that points towards the music video, since there is no dialogue, but the presence of music is constant. The film was shot in one day and premiered at a pop-up outdoor screening outside the infamous Manila Film Center in 2001.
The film focuses on two radically different individuals. The Greaseman is a dirty bump roaming the streets of Manila with no shoes, barely dressed, trying to scrape anything he can to eat, while reading a book or being followed by children who seem to mock him but not being afraid of his terrible appearance. The Yuppie is a well-off man, living in a comfortable apartment, working in an office and spending his time visiting galleries or flirting with shop clerks. One night, however, the radically differently paths of the two men collide,...
The film focuses on two radically different individuals. The Greaseman is a dirty bump roaming the streets of Manila with no shoes, barely dressed, trying to scrape anything he can to eat, while reading a book or being followed by children who seem to mock him but not being afraid of his terrible appearance. The Yuppie is a well-off man, living in a comfortable apartment, working in an office and spending his time visiting galleries or flirting with shop clerks. One night, however, the radically differently paths of the two men collide,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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